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  • 5/4/2025
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00:002012 CNN, IBN and History TV 18 conducted a poll in which 20 million people participated.
00:06They asked who has been the greatest personality of India since it became independent.
00:10Do you know who was ranked number one? It was Dr. Ambedkar.
00:13Above Nehru, above Patel, the scope of his work was so extensive and so appealing
00:18that even today's common child tends towards that.
00:21So he talked about women and his liberal perspective on women.
00:25Why wouldn't today's girls lean towards Dr. Ambedkar?
00:28Amartya Sen, our Nobel Prize winner, had said that Ambedkar is the father of my economics.
00:33So the new generation sees him as a hero. He is educated and speaks fearlessly and straightforwardly.
00:39Today the situation arises that those whom we call upper caste, they stand in large numbers with Dr. Ambedkar.